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          signifying the impossible song 2024 - Southern Guild Los Angeles
          Alexandra Karakashian - console, 2024
          Mmangaliso Nzuza - An Open Letter 2024
          Jozua Gerrard - contemporary artist, figurative painter - In the Present Tense
          Xanthe Somers - Invisible Hand 2024
          Zanele Muholi - Bambatha I (2023) - Frieze Sculpture 2024
          Chuma Maweni - ceramic artist
          Ayotunde Ojo - Nigerian painter

          signifying the impossible song

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          Beneath the broken sun

          Alexandra Karakashian

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          An Open Letter

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          In the Present Tense

          Jozua Gerrard

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          Invisible Hand

          Xanthe Somers

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          Frieze Sculpture 2024

          Zanele Muholi | Zizipho Poswa

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          iMvelaphi

          Chuma Maweni

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          These Four Walls

          Ayotunde Ojo

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          Based in Cape Town and Los Angeles, Southern Guild represents contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora, furthering the continent’s contribution to global art movements.

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          Alexandra Karakashian - console, 2024
          Beneath the broken sun

          Alexandra Karakashian

          Los Angeles 13 Sept - 9 Nov 2024

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          signifying the impossible song 2024 - Southern Guild Los Angeles
          signifying the impossible song

          Group exhibition

          Los Angeles 13 Sept - 9 Nov 2024

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          Jozua Gerrard - contemporary artist, figurative painter - In the Present Tense
          In the Present Tense

          Jozua Gerrard

          Cape Town 29 Aug - 7 Nov 2024

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          Xanthe Somers - Invisible Hand 2024
          Invisible Hand

          Xanthe Somers

          Cape Town 29 Aug - 7 Nov 2024

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          Mmangaliso Nzuza - An Open Letter 2024
          An Open Letter

          Mmangaliso Nzuza

          Cape Town 29 Aug - 7 Nov 2024

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          Chuma Maweni - ceramic artist
          iMvelaphi

          Chuma Maweni

          Cape Town 14 Nov - 28 Feb 2025

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          Ayotunde Ojo - Nigerian painter
          These Four Walls

          Ayotunde Ojo

          Cape Town 14 Nov - 27 Feb 2025

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          Wycliffe Mundopa - Odd Man Out, 2024
          Mbare Opera

          Wycliffe Mundopa

          Los Angeles 21 Nov - 1 Feb 2025

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          Southern Guild in ‘Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors and Radical Black Joy’ at MoAD, San Francisco
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          Southern Guild artists in group show ‘Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors and Radical Black Joy’ at MoAD, San Francisco
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          DOTY Awards 2024 - Icon Award Trevyn and Julian McGowan
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          Southern Guild co-founders receive Icon Award at the inaugural House & Garden SA Designer of the Year Awards
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          By Design, 2024 - Denver Art Museum
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          Diallo and Dyalvane in ‘By Design: Stories and Ideas Behind Objects’ at the Denver Art Museum
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          Homo Faber 2024: The Journey of Life
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          Poswa, Hefer, Fani and Dyalvane at Homo Faber 2024 in Venice
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          Marvellous Realism - Fotografiska, Shanghai
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          Muholi in 'Marvellous Realism' at Fotografiska Shanghai
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          Nomcoko, 2024 - Andile Dyalvane
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          Andile Dyalvane's 'OoNomathotholo: Ancestral Whispers' opens at Friedman Benda, New York
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          Madoda Fani and Patrick Bongoy
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          Madoda Fani and Patrick Bongoy at the second edition of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA) in Australia
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          ZANELE MUHOLI monograph, 2024
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          Southern Guild publishes Zanele Muholi exhibition monograph
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          Southern Guild Opens in Los Angeles

          22 Feb 2024

          Press
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          Southern Guild’s Path to Becoming a Global Platform for African Artists

          Artsy, September 2024

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          Trevyn and Julian McGowan at Southern Guild Los Angeles, 2024
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          Seventeen artists illustrate displacement and defiance at Southern Guild Los Angeles

          Designboom, September 2024

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          Inga Somdyala - Chronicle of a Death Foretold V, 2023
          Sisonke Papu, GUILD Residency 2023
          GUILD Residency

          Based in Cape Town, our residency programme is open to artists from around the world who want to engage with an African context.

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